An incorrigible Cognitive Dissident

Theresa May broke her word to call this election. After it, she will break her word on Brexit. But there is no Opposition to stop her. Whose fault is it?

Four years ago, I posted a piece about the then Culture (sic) Secretary, Jeremy Hunt. His sole response in the Commons, to damning evidence that he had abused his office to favour the Murdoch family, was “I have done nothing wrong”. Shortly after this, the then Prime Minister David Cameron denied that the favour involved (letting Newscorp grab BSkyB largely unhindered) had been discussed at a secret Boxing Day lunch with James Murdoch and Rebekah Brooks. They’d just all had lunch in the strictest secrecy because they were pals. The way you do.

Two MPs I spoke to at the time (one Labour, one Conservative) said almost exactly the same thing: that things had got to a stage in the clique running the Tory Party where, after surviving that lot, they now believed they could get away with anything. The Conservative – a very nice and principled bloke with rather rich descriptive faculties – said, “To be honest, Cameron could fuck a pig in Newmarket’s main street in broad daylight now, and nobody would give a stuff”. In an astonishing switch whereby surreal fantasy became fact, it was revealed the following year that Cameron had given fellatio to a dead pig at some jolly gathering. Dave didn’t even bother to deny it.

So with an Election now rising over the blue horizon, let us summarise what the re-elected Tory Party has been up to since, and how events have variously unfolded and unravelled. It has knowingly misled the country (twice) on WASPI pension information between 1995 and 2012. It has committed a brazen act of embezzlement in hanging onto 40 years of the victims’ NI contributions. It has cut a swathe of such ferocity through disablement welfare, thousands of people are going to be without enough money or any transport from here on. It has created more jobs, but the number of hours being worked remains static, wage levels are going down, and low paid work is now almost completely without any security of tenure.

It made such a Horlicks of the EU referendum campaign, Cameron had to resign after the result. Despite all the crushing austerity, the national debt has doubled and the deficit reduction missed its target by 40%….so the Chancellor had to resign. Well actually, he was fired….by the Home Secretary who, given the task of cutting immigration to 10,000 a year, never got it below 130,000. And so she therefore had to….um, become Prime Minister.

Everything the Bullingdon Boys set out to do in 2010 now lies in tatters. The Murdoch family – caught red-handed carrying out illegal surveillance on ten of thousands of voters – is stronger than ever, and Brooks is back at the helm of Newscorp UK….or whatever the Digger has decided to call it this week. British manufacturing has shrunk by a further 18%, and the economy is even more biased to financial 3-card trick mumbo-jumbo than it ever was. And Brexit has happened…..allegedly.

But even on that last point, The Brexiteer Cup was snatched from the hands of the winners by the announcement of a May Cabinet consisting almost entirely of pro-EU Remainers – the same people like Fallon and Hammond who have given us the most cynically unethical foreign policy in even our ruthless Imperial history. Hammond – the new mendacious but at times quite amusing Chancellor – has spent every day since undermining the Brexit negotiating team, while privately ridiculing the bombastic incompetence of Boris Johnson our equally new (but dreadfully tarnished) Foreign Secretary.

Just to round off this cacophony of arrogant amateur night, as London Mayor, Johnson (you will remember) falsified emissions data to let his mate Tim Yeo get a whopping taxi contract, placed his capacious buttocks on the Elm House Tory Council child trafficking scandal, and tried to pervert the course of justice on Hackgate.

A motley crew of partners in crime, you may think: and you would, in my estimation, be right. But it was obvious from the opening salvos last year that May the reborn Brexiteer was chained every which way by Brussels idiocy, Tory backbench ire, and various Cabinet colleagues. (Labour would claim that she was also under pressure from the childish antics of the 48%, but that is palpable nonsense. Since the Love not Hate organised jumping up and down began in earnest, she has steadfastly ignored it….along with every evidenced entreaty from WASPI.

Thus, when Philip Hammond faced a debt-swamped Budget challenge six weeks ago – and tackled it by ignoring both debt and austerity victims in favour of sweeteners for any wavering smuggies – I predicted that a snap election was on the cards. And here it is.

Yet this crew of scurvy knaves now boarding the pirate ship Mayflower has every confidence that they’re about to singe the Corbyn’s beard and bury Blackabbott – and this is not faux confidence: even the New Statesman predicts Labour will lose up to 40 seats, and there is at the moment a general consensus that The Arse May** will end up with a 100-135 seat majority. No UK election favourite has ever started from that position and lost.

Before we get into the meat of this, however, there is the question of recent changes in electoral law regarding the amount of power she has to call an election at all – following the Fixed Term Parliament Act of 2011. Regrettably, like most “laws” the Coalition passed, the Devil is in the exceptions: Clause 2 still allows an election to be called after losing a vote of confidence or if two-thirds of Members vote in favour of a Cabinet recommendation to dissolve Parliament. So she is going to get her election: Labour Blairites will vote for it (the quicker to dump the Corbynistas) and activist Corbynites unable to contain their Bring it On delusions will do the same – although to be fair, were they not to welcome it, they would be open to charges of cowardice given their gobbiness in recent months.

Due to be held on Thursday June 8th, the Election promises to be (as Hobbes put it) “nasty, brutish and short”. Another certainty, I fancy, is that there will be clangers dropped on all sides….if only because we have never had so many born clanger-droppers in UK politics as we do today. And that brings me to the spine of my argument today.

There is, still, nowhere for those of us who find the economic vandalism, national asset greed, serial mendacity and uncaring nature of neocon-infected Conservatism to go and vote with either pride or certainty. The astonishing thing about that (in my lifetime) unique situation is that we represent perhaps 1 in 5 of those who do vote regularly. We can all chuck blame about irresponsibly until the Bermuda Triangle aircrews come back; but the country’s Opposition forces having reached that place of near-zero attraction with mind-boggling consistency, every objective analyst must start with those involved in arriving there.

The Blairite Soros clones of 1997 tossed away the best chance to rebuild British society along fresh lines for 34 years through a cowardly combination of pc gesture politics and Tory-lite policies. Those who followed turned to Metro-pc drivel. Now we have a return to class war and crypto-collectivism locked in a death struggle with the Muswell Hillbilly pinhead dancers and sociopathic Campbellista spin-quacks.

None of it is attractive to me, and most of it is deemed risible by mainstream Britain: and mainstream Britain is not racist Little Englanders. Rather, it is a potentially unbeatable alliance of what I choose to call The Vulnerable: young aspiring professional families, cheated pensioners, the innocent disabled, older traditionalists, radical realists and desperate carers – nurses, young doctors and special needs/care home heroes.

It would not be that difficult to unite these groups. But Labour has gone out of its way to alienate them, ignore its core support, and continue an onanistic debate that has been going on for over 130 years.

The SNP? It is led by a chancer who disguises the reality that (a) she has yet to persuade anything near a majority of her compatriots to leave the UK, and (b) remains – like Labour – a supposedly radical fairness Party unable to discern the bullying, fascist nature of the EU….or recognise the unaccountable power of its unelected banking and administrative functionaries.

The Liberal Democrats? In a world sadly dominated by identity politics, they have lost their brand identity….and gained a leader whose identity is only in question on the dimension of whether he is an identity politician or a political nonentity. (I fear that he is both – an even worse form of electoral antimatter than the Corbyn-Blackabbott combo)

And last but by no means least, the post-Farage UKIP led by Paul Nuttall. UKIP also has two disadvantages: far too many voters think Brexit is a done deal, so voting UKIP is at best nostalgia; and Paul Nuttall. Many of those who admired “Sir” Nigel will go back to the Conservatives – and even if the unpleasant guttersnipe who has replaced him manages to grab a few more disgruntled former core Labour voters, there is no way our archaic FPTP voting system will allow any breakthrough for his Party.

The Conservatives are going to win….and in the aftermath of that, the Opposition crisis will (at least for a while) worsen. Unlike the Brexit Referendum, I see no reason at all to vote in this General Election. My only role – and even that one must be limited – will be to help Waspi pension victims focus action on those constituencies where there is a large, ageing population who increasingly distrust the Tories.

If Labour’s soi-disant activists want something useful to do – as opposed to attending brainless demonstrations – then they could do a lot worse than organise the bottom-end desperate to vote. In the last election, 34% of the entitled electorate didn’t cast a vote. Even persuading half of them to do so would sweep Jeremy Corbyn to victory.

But as with apolitical Waspis, such causes lack appeal for the Dave Sparts of this world. Not for them the unsung hero role. They’re more your spitting, obscene labelling, placard-carrying, Trot syntax sort of folks. And unfortunately, they’re the ones promoting the quantitative fantasy of Jeremy Corbyn in Downing Street.

** As I mentioned a couple of posts ago, The Arse May is an anagram of Theresa May. I intend to stick with it for the duration of the General Election.

Might it be that May-or-May-not realised that Plod’s fraud investigation into Tory electoral overspending in South Thanet and elsewhere might eradicate her existing small majority and a snap General Election, with any potential legal action held in abeyance, could be the only way out?

@ dofornow
April 19, 2017 at 9:31 pm. That’s a good point. If the irregular voters feel as strongly about Brexit as they did then, which I hope they do, they’ll be making the effort again. They won’t be party voters and as May seems to be the only recipient for Brexit votes it looks good for her. However I tend to agree with what some on here have already said, she’ll sell us out with a Brexit that’s not worth having. Wish Farage had not thrown the towel in when he did. If he’d kept kept going at full throttle it might have been different but seems UKIP are a spent force now. Feel like we’re snookered behind the black.

Well JW, while you are bemoaning the demise of ‘Participative Democracy’ in the bastion of the free, you will no doubt be delighted to know that the EU directive, to limit plastic shopping bags to a maximum of two a week for each shopper, has been approved by he Czech Senate and is due for its final reading in the House. Clear proof that the EU & European governments have their eyes firmly planted on the main game!

I siezed the opportunity afforded by a quick visit to my local market town (the primary purpose having been to pick up a lunchtime pork pie) to drop into the library to snare a copy of ‘Etymology for Cocksuckers’, only to find that the library was closed last year as a result of local government funding cuts. Do I detect a whiff of conspiracy?

Anyway, all was not lost, because the butchers shop was overflowing with pork pies.

A more reliable source of information here might be the scholarly work, available from most pubic libraries, entitled ‘Etymology For Cocksuckers’ (ISBN 696969) by Fellatio Hornblower. It appears to be generally well accepted among the pignoscenti that the dead animal may well have been a fellatrix but that, equally, David Cameldung was/is full of tricks and and an absolute swine.

In the light of the Brexit vote and the total meltdown of Labour is this snap general election going to give the Tories their expected result? The electorate may finally think before voting especially as the daily comics have only a limited time to feed the party propaganda to the masses. Or is it a stage managed event to justify cancelling brexit?

I’ve got myself in a bit of a muddle about the grammar/etymology around the matter of Cameron’s (alleged) encounter with the dead even toed (or probably no toed) ungulate. You say the he gave fallatio to the pig, but I think that the allegation revolved around the pig fellating Cameron, or Cameron being fellated by the pig, though I accept that due to its condition at the time, the pig didn’t actually ‘give’ Cameron fellatio, rather Cameron took it.

Anyway, I looked it up on the net, which killed a bit of time, and the ever-unreliable Wikipedia reports thus;

“The English noun fellatio comes from fellātus, which in Latin is the past participle of the verb fellāre, meaning to suck. In fellatio the -us is replaced by the -io; the declension stem ends in -ion-, which gives the suffix the form -ion (cf. French fellation). The -io(n) ending is used in English to create nouns from Latin adjectives and it can indicate a state or action wherein the Latin verb is being, or has been, performed.

Further English words have been created based on the same Latin root. A person who performs fellatio upon another may be termed a fellator; because of Latin’s gender based declension, this word may be restricted by some English speakers to describing a male. The equivalent term for a female is fellatrix.”

So we’re in even more of a muddle now, because we don’t know (and I guess never will) whether the pig was a boy (fellator) or a girl (fellatrix) pig.

However, Wikipedia goes on to say..

“A person who performs fellatio on someone might be referred to as the giving partner, and the other person as the receiving partner.”

So I think we can possibly accept that Cameron ‘took’ fellatio from the dead pig. Allegedly.

Expect the general election to turn into a second referendum on BREXIT. The scope for Tories to lose seats to LibDems is being greatly underestimated with many Tory voters switching to prevent BREXIT. UKIP will disappear as supporters get behind May. Labour will be an irrelevance and possibly getting a smaller share of the vote than LibDems.

Politicians that are ‘bought and paid for’ or as I am increasingly of the belief, blackmailed by compromising dossiers of their bizarre sexual proclivities. Given the Marc Dutroux connections to high profile Belgians, and the recently exposed shenanigans in the U.K.’s halls of power centred around Elm House and Dolphin Square, it is a toss-up as to which set of sociopaths are preferable. At least the local politicians are more handy for the pitchfork and lamppost treatment if the truth is finally allowed into the public domain.

Argued like a good sophist. Politicians in the UK are no more or less of a problem than politicians elsewhere, to the extent that they’re bought and paid for.
Few if any who voted for Brexit harbour any illusions about the tortured beast we call ‘democracy’, or that its health would necessarily improve merely by disengaging from the unquestionably manipulative EU.
But as we have seen in the last 9 months, very little has happened.
You forgot to mention the European Commission which eschews democracy entirely and is overtly dedicated to supplanting national sovereignty with a United States of Europe, or the impossibility of a successful single currency, or the many millions of other Europeans for whom the dream is causing sleepless nights. Specious reasoning does not entitle you to claim cognitive superiority.

And as I warned before the referendum – the problem isn’t the politicians in the EU but the politicians at Westminster.
We were told by the Brexit brigade that it would be a brave new world of being able to hire and fire our leaders, free from the manipulative hand of the EU.
But as we have seen in the last year, the opposite has happened, and we are left with a democracy that is almost openly corrupt.

@kfc1404 : you are correct this is a re-run of the referendum (we didn’t get it right remember) and many of us who cannot thole the Tory neocons are going to have to bite back our bile and vote for them as representing the only Brexit party.

The alternative is the woffeling Corbyn who by his performance on the beeb this morning seems to be saying that they are for brexit so long as we don’t actually brexit. The guy has zero credibility.

I am old enough to remember when Labour was avidly against the EU recognising it for what it is (see Tony Benn’s five tests). If only labour had given Cabinet posts to Gisela Stuart and Frank Field and listened to them they would not have alienated their core voteand we would be in a different world now. Instead as Stuart Beaker pointed out they chose the easy route of vertue signalling on behalf of every minority self assumed victim group and rare sexual deviancies.

I wonder if the Mayshower have not miscalculated. There were 48% remoaners and no doubt the Blair/mandelson/Soros millions will be deployed with the same backing from the US deep state and their finance overlords as in the referendum.

A great summary John. Just wish I could escape to a quiet part of the forest until polling day.

Turkey has shown how easy it is to fiddle an election result, just like the ruling elite did at the last election – I will never forget the look on the face of Ed Balls when he heard he had lost his seat, priceless.
Check out the win for the conservatives in Copeland in the recent bye-election- postal votes irregularities again.
It is all too easy

Spare a thought for poor old Rupert M.
Fox News has just fired Bill O Reilly following paying out, allegedly, USD 13,000,000$, to staff members following claims of se*ual . What a coincidence after a Roger Ailes departure.
After the coincidence of firings and jailing s in U.K. and closure of the New of the World.
What a run of bad luck!
And Kelvin still writing inspirational pieces on soccer…
But nothing to see here, carry on.
It’s just the “liberal lying press hounding a good man out of a job”.
It’ll be interesting to see he Donald’s next tweet for his old pal Bill.
Gerard

An apt commentary from a financial blog:-
“May’s incentive is to placate Remain voters and please soft-Brexit supporters, leaving hard-Brexit believers out in the cold. In the end, the deal will be a Brexit so diluted it’s meaningless.

With an early election, May has betrayed Brexit. Voters won’t realise it until it’s too late. We will never get a chance to vote for or against whatever Brexit deal May actually makes.”

For me the highlighted first paragraph said it all, May will rat on brexit. I still believe that brexit won simply on the fact people were given the opportunity to change something. It didn’t matter what that something was, just something had to change.

The brexit offered will be a punishment brexit and the plebs warned you change things we will fu.. fornicate you over.

Very depressing…but, as you most often do, you’ve hit the nail right on the head ! It occurred to me though, Tory remainers might just possibly switch their allegiance, temporarily, to the Lib Dems, since they are apparently making ‘remain’ a central plank of their campaign. This could split the Tory vote. ( Of course, we all know that the central plank of the Lib Dems is actually Tim Farron ha ha ! )

Considering the Libdems are putting remaining in the EU first and foremost as their election manifesto surely 14m people voting for them is going to upset the applecart?
Is this not just a re-run of the referendum?
This is, possibly the last chance for the remainers, can’t see Blair, Mandleson and Campbell passing an opportunity like this up, can you?
All may not be as it seems.

So many good points, especially on the waspis and the disabled who have been among those to have been deliberately targeted for shoddy and at times lethal intent.

But your chosen domicile perhaps renders your perception of the grass roots of the UK Labour left less deft. Indeed one of the reasons for the snap election was the recent poll on policy, that showed 60- 80% support for Labours policy (abroad a voters) and when the same policies were associated with Corbyn, this support fell on average only 2- 5%. Support on the doorstep for change is now reaching a tipping point, and the CPS being ready to charge 30 “individuals” with election fraud must have been the final straw.

Don’t underestimate the electorate. It has consistently returned Labour candidates with an increase majority in most local and by elections held in the last 18 months. If Labour can do this under the most vicious and sustained attack from the press and the right wing, it can do even better now there is a chance to get real change.

2,500 joined the labour party in a few hours after the GE announcement. They will all be willing to fight what will be a dirty election. Because of Corbyn there is now £millions in the war chest and 400,000 supporter willing to stake their claim to a right to change.

Sadly, John, I think you are right – ‘none of the above’ just about sums it up. We really need to reacquire genuine national sovereignty; we need to readopt the habits and skills that only come with being truly responsible for our own future; but we do also need to readopt and readmit those sections of our own population that you mention, so that we have a basis for real consent.

If only the Labour Party would admit its complete lunacy in falling for the fantasy politics of victim groups as a political product; if only UKIP weren’t composed of such utter tossers; if only the Redwoods, JRMs and other clear-sighted Tories would actually get together and push hard for a coherent and honest vision of their credo; if only… The list goes on and on, of failures by the score, that have put us at this point where it seems we will fail, whatever opportunities come our way.

The people who don’t understand this are (many of) the politicians themselves, which is very strange the more you think about it – opportunism is hateful, but failed opportunism is risible. Politicians and their canine media friends.

I really don’t know who I’ll vote for, or if indeed I’ll vote at all. Sad-face, as they say.

As is so often the case, John, you have effectively gathered my scattered thoughts on the subject to hand and put them into a more intelligible form, then added your own special ingredient to make it all crystal clear. Thank you.

My thoughts on Theresa Klebb (the more printable ones anyway), even before this cynical play for increased and entrenched power a la Erdogan, were ones of deep cynicism. We are heading for a period not unlike that of a one-party state primarily because the intellectual dwarves represented by the phrase “Her Maj’s Loyal Opposition” couldn’t organise an orgy in a brothel with a £1000 kitty to start them off. If the Gubmint are scarcely being held to account now, what will it be like in twelve month’s time?